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Rumours and allegations of a move from Upstart to SystemD are unfounded: Upstart has a huge battery of tests, the competition has virtually none. Upstart knows everything it wants to be, the competition wants to be everything. Quality comes from focus and clarity of purpose, it comes from careful design and rigorous practices. After a review by the Ubuntu Foundations team our course is clear: we’re committed to Upstart, it’s the better choice for a modern init, innit. For our future on cloud and client, Upstart is crisp, clean and correct.

So, is Ubuntu gonna go alone with Upstart even if Debian switches to SystemD?

To me Mark is wrong on this one: SystemD is not bloated or so, but rather it's the right tool to cut the loose system ends (guaranteed killing of process etc etc) that historically no Linux distro bothered fixing, until now.

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Gotta give Google massive props for Summer of Code, it creates a huge influx of code for all sorts of open source projects and perhaps even more importantly there the potential of future long time contributors in these students.

Lot's of interesting projects accepted. KDE seems to have hit the jackpot this year, something like 60 projects accepted!

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> Xorg is slowly being put aside and wayland has strong backing and a fulltime working dev team.

That's a very shortsighted view, Wayland has nothing like NX, not even in its roadmap..
GSocs to improve the free NX client, to integrate it into X, to fix some X issues (even if the transition happen, it'll take several years) would have been nice..

And much more important than some of the "toy" GSoc which have been accepted .